Researchers Complete Seismic Borehole In Kentucky (New Madrid Seismic Zone)

Science Daily ^ | 12-14-2006 | University Of Kentucky

[Dog Gone]

I haven't read the periodicals you've named but won't link.

I read the story as presented. The story indicates a lack of planning. Maybe the story is wrong. Maybe it's right.

You won't provide any evidence from the periodicals you read that support you. Why is that?

I mean, you're so well read, and feel fully qualified to push my face in the dirt for questioning what I read in this post, let's see it!

Show us that the article posted here is wrong.

[null and void]

Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people.

[muawiyah]

It's a typical "progress piece" ~ generally there's no need to provide a complete who-struck-john scenario when your audience is only interested in what happened today.

If I've been following this story in other science journals, why shouldn't the folks reading that be doing the same.

Why is it you didn't already know about this?

[muawiyah]

Lot of stuff going on in Midwestern research that you just aren't aware of it appears. Try this article: http://www.earth.columbia.edu/news/2003/story05-02-03.html

[Dog Gone]

I don't follow goofy 2000 foot wells drilled by government grants by scientists researchers without a plan.

I'm glad you do, and you have full confidence in them even in the face of articles which says they don't know what to do next.

[muawiyah]

Again, you're the guy saying the article says they don't have an idea of what to do next. Fact is there's a detailed plan for this project, and I can only guess it will prove so successful they'll move ahead to drill another couple of hundred such holes all over the fault zone.

This is, in my mind, a very good use of tax dollars. The comparable boreholes in California along the San Andreas were, in contrast, a total waste of money.

[rawcatslyentist]

>"Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings kill people."

Hillary call for two week waiting period for building buyers.

[Dog Gone]

It's not worth fighting about. The problem may simply be the reporting of the project, and the fact that the reporter couldn't convey the status of the project to my satisfaction. Entirely possible.

I'm not convinced that they know what they're doing, but it's late on Friday night for me, and I think we've about exhausted this discussion.

[muawiyah]

Not quite ~ I suspect it will take THOUSANDS of such boreholes to get a good grasp on what's happening with this fault zone.

Hear that, thousand and thousands and thousands of them ~ and all with your tax dollars.

[null and void]

If you know what you're doing, it isn't science...

;^)

[SunkenCiv]

Earthquakes are so mundane. ;')

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[Lurker]

The New Madrid quake was the largest up until the Alaska quake.

If the New Madrid had an 8.8 today the destruction would be unbelievable. It would make Katrina look like a picnic.

L

[Mark-in-Kentucky]

I certainly share your feelings. When I see a thread with with a science-based topic here on FR, I can easily predict what I'll find when I click on it: a bunch of lame jokes and embarrassing ignorance. Very rarely is there any serious and interesting discussion to be found.

[skinkinthegrass]

How about: When everyone is out to get you, paranoid is just good thinking?....Yes....and good self-protection. :^)
thanks, for ping, RPL
All I've done is respond to your challenge ~ it's pretty obvious that the scientists have had a "plan" since long before the drill went in the ground....The problem may simply be the reporting of the project, and the fact that the reporter couldn't convey the status of the project to my satisfaction. Entirely possible....as noted.
I'm pretty close to the red zone, FF(CKY)....Kewl Map, Blam

If you know what you're doing, it isn't science...;^)
LOL!....stop that!...that's so true, in so many endeavors. :)

[Steamburg]

Spending our tax money was the whole point of the program. There is no proven value in this "science". We have no tools that will prevent earthquakes. Of course, someone should calculate the amount of global warming gases and particular pollutant that was caused by the drilling. There is another study worthy of our tax dollars.

[skinkinthegrass]

When I see a thread with with a science-based topic here on FR....Very rarely is there any serious and interesting discussion to be found.

There are many good topics/threads...just not recently. :D

[CDHart]

Interesting. We are in central Missouri, which could be affected by an EQ in this fault area.

Carolyn

[SLB]

KY ping.

[billhilly]

I grew up just across the river from New Madrid, in the same county (Fulton) where this project is located. That quake in 1811 sure improved the real estate by creating the marvelous Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, mere minutes from where I lived. Frequently, though, the jam would fly off of the shelf during the many minor quakes.

http://www.amazon.com/When-Mississippi-Ran-Backwards-Earthquakes/dp/0743242785

[muawiyah]

No proven value in what?!?!?!?

Just 20 seconds advance warning is going to help 75 million people in the affected area save their lives or avoid injury.

BTW, the whole business is a tad beyond "science" and has crept into "engineering application" ~ it's not like they want to discover what causes earthquakes, or that they can prevent them. After all, we know what "causes" earthquakes ~ the earth moves!

I say spend ALL the money on this project. Do thousands of boreholes. Drop in gazillions of measurement devices.